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P13

Birth injury to skeleton

Not billableICD-10-CM diagnosis code.

This code exists but cannot be submitted on its own. It groups the more specific codes beneath it.

A category header for its whole life, FY2016 onwards. It has never been valid for submission on its own.

Submit one of these 7 more specific codes instead:

  • P13.0 Fracture of skull due to birth injury
  • P13.1 Other birth injuries to skull
  • P13.2 Birth injury to femur
  • P13.3 Birth injury to other long bones
  • P13.4 Fracture of clavicle due to birth injury
  • P13.8 Birth injuries to other parts of skeleton
  • P13.9 Birth injury to skeleton, unspecified

What has happened to this code

Every change the publisher made, from 2012 to now. Entries marked draft are from the pre-implementation releases: ICD-10 took effect on 1 October 2015, so nothing before FY2016 was ever valid on a claim.

  1. FY2012 Added to the draft code set draft Birth injury to skeleton

Official coding rules

Published by CDC for FY2027. A rule attached to a category binds every code beneath it, so the rules inherited from this code's ancestors are shown with the code they come from.

This code

Excludes2 - not included here

  • birth injury to spine (P11.5)